I bought this when it cost £130. Had only been out a few months.

I then bought King Kong, 2 fast 2 furious, and the Mission Impossible trilogy. Absolutely amazing quality. I use it with my Windows PC most of them time, on Vista and XP (you need a copy of powerDVD to do this) and its excellent in full 1080p quality.

Equal quality to blu-ray but only £3-4 per film now.

I have about 25 HD-DVD's now and have just found a disc drive that does blu-ray and HD-DVD for £65 brand new, so I can continue to buy HD-DVD's for as long as they are around, and now start getting the latest movies on blu-ray.

I'd recommend getting one of these if you can, and see if you can get your favourite DVD movies in HD-DVD. 2 fast 2 furious for example, is a far better experience than the DVD for both sound and visual quality.

And its also proved a handy thing to have when watching a film on DVD or HD-DVD when im on the xbox, as i don't have to swap discs to play a game when the… more »

I bought this when it cost £130. Had only been out a few months.

I then bought King Kong, 2 fast 2 furious, and the Mission Impossible trilogy. Absolutely amazing quality. I use it with my Windows PC most of them time, on Vista and XP (you need a copy of powerDVD to do this) and its excellent in full 1080p quality.

Equal quality to blu-ray but only £3-4 per film now.

I have about 25 HD-DVD's now and have just found a disc drive that does blu-ray and HD-DVD for £65 brand new, so I can continue to buy HD-DVD's for as long as they are around, and now start getting the latest movies on blu-ray.

I'd recommend getting one of these if you can, and see if you can get your favourite DVD movies in HD-DVD. 2 fast 2 furious for example, is a far better experience than the DVD for both sound and visual quality.

And its also proved a handy thing to have when watching a film on DVD or HD-DVD when im on the xbox, as i don't have to swap discs to play a game when the movies over.

If you have a Netbook you can also plug this in and use it as a DVD drive so you can install all your software. And it has 2 USB ports on the back so it also acts as a HUB, so even without the HD-DVD's this is quite a useful piece of kit to have anyway.

The quality is the same as Blu-ray due to the compression techniques used, the movies don't need as much space on disc. So if your not sure on whether or not to get a blu-ray player just yet, this is a good way to decide. If the quality of the HD-DVD's isn't good enough for you, blu-ray won't be worth £200-300.

Yes, HD lost the war. But, 1080p pictures for £3 a pop. beat that Blu-ray. OK you're not going to see any new films being released on this format. but the back catalogue, especially from Warners, is enormous.

The film quality is stunning, for example compare the HD version of 2001 - A Space Odyssey with the already excellent standard version. There is a scene where Leonard Rossitier is talking to a woman and on the normal version you can see she's wearing tights, on the HD you can see the PATTERN on them. Also there are booths behind them with wording on them, illegible in the normal version but crystal clear in the HD version.

The drive does make a bit of noise, pretty much the same as you get when playing a game on the Xbox, so only in quiet scenes does it stand out. The remote is fabulous, and controls not just the player but the console itself (like accessing Windows Media Extender). Plus the buttons light up in the dark so great if like me you watch films in complete… more »

Yes, HD lost the war. But, 1080p pictures for £3 a pop. beat that Blu-ray. OK you're not going to see any new films being released on this format. but the back catalogue, especially from Warners, is enormous.

The film quality is stunning, for example compare the HD version of 2001 - A Space Odyssey with the already excellent standard version. There is a scene where Leonard Rossitier is talking to a woman and on the normal version you can see she's wearing tights, on the HD you can see the PATTERN on them. Also there are booths behind them with wording on them, illegible in the normal version but crystal clear in the HD version.

The drive does make a bit of noise, pretty much the same as you get when playing a game on the Xbox, so only in quiet scenes does it stand out. The remote is fabulous, and controls not just the player but the console itself (like accessing Windows Media Extender). Plus the buttons light up in the dark so great if like me you watch films in complete darkness.

Little to fault therefore other than longevity, howvere the 25 films I ordered for less than £80 will keep me going for a long time yet.

Miss out at your peril.